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  title info:
    title: Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television
    sub title: the Persephone complex
  name:
    name part: Horbury, Alison
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed. She takes four television heroines dramatizing this Persephone symptom - Ally McBeal, Sydney Bristow, Veronica Mars, and Meredith Grey - to show what is unconscious in this symptom, and identifies an impasse in feminist cultural criticisms as they respond to post-feminist cultures where ideas about feminine sexuation conflict with poststructuralist thought on the topic of 'woman'. She introduces psychoanalytic approaches to the novel to rethink the engagement of audiences with long-form serial narrative, and suggests that post-feminist discourses manifesting in Persephone's story offer us a cultural symptom that, when analysed, offers us new reflections on feminism today"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Why Persephone? -- 1.The myth of Persephone and The hymn to Demeter -- 2. Persephone in heroine television: The post-feminist Impasse -- 3. Persephone as narrative symptom: narrative transactions in long-form viewership -- 4.Persephone as epistemological impasse: the real body of Sydney Bristow and 'The woman here depicted' -- 5. Persephone as methodological impasse: feminine jouissance in Veronica's 'Two stories' -- 6. Persephone as historical impasse: 'Confrontation and accommodation' of the post-feminist heroine -- Conclusion : The Persephone complex.
  note: Alison Horbury, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Women on television
  subject:
    topic: Heroines on television
  subject:
    topic: Sex role on television
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Greek deity)
      name part: Persephone
    topic: On television
  subject:
    topic: Feminism
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
  classification: PN1992.8.W65 H67 2015
  classification: 791.43/6522
  classification: SOC010000 SOC032000 SOC052000
  identifier: 9781137511362 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137511362 (hardback)
  identifier: 2015013000
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150406
    record change date: 20170928133115.0
    record identifier: in00003583336
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng